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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP.  My friend who is an investment advisor sent her kids to an elite Catholic high school and then to Catholic higher education (non-DMV, not Notre Dame or Georgetown).

I trust her opinion fully.  She felt that the smaller size of her kids' universities offered the best chance for them to master their disciplines and be highly-ranked in their classes (one engineer, one pre-med who will need faculty recs for med school).  So far it's working well.  The older boy has gotten some good engineering co-ops.

I'm mentioning this because OP is worried about GPA for college. And I want OP to know that right now her kid is likely already doing well enough to have options that will definitely accomplish the goals of college.  And they obviously welcome Catholic high-school grads at Catholic universities.

OP, so that you can stay calm while your kid settles in, I suggest that you look into a few relevant universities and evaluate them for fit for your kid's likely future objectives.[/quote]

I work with investment advisers.  They aren't educational consultants.  [/quote]

My friend is really smart, an MBA, and works with HNW people, and has made this choice for her kids even though she herself went to an elite school because she thinks these universities have a good combo of affordability and student-centricity that will lead to student learning and high GPAs,  internships, jobs and personalized grad school LORs. I'm impressed with her reasoning which is far more detailed than shared here.
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